THIS GUIDE IS FOR THOSE PPL WHO PREFER TO DIE DEFENDING THEIR TEAM MEMBER INSTEAD OF FLYING.
After all, nothing happens to Ardan's children.
Start with Ironguard and pots, mandatory.
This will also get you TONS of money if your team keep winning fights during mid-game, and your wallet will pretty much be over 1500 many times.
You do want to alternate between lane and jungle to protect who's more weak within your team.
In some cases it will be better if you stay in the lane, especially if
is there.
In the first 10 minutes you want to gather a lot of HP since Vanguard works on bonus health.
This is critical in order to keep your team members alive during mid-game.
Between 10 and 15 minutes, both teams will start dealing a lot of damage, this is why you want to get Fountain of Renewal and using it just before or after Vanguard, this saved my team so many times!
Also start now to build Breaking Point because you will need it in the very last minutes of the game when you will be the last man standing against 2 or even 3 enemies.
At this point you can get back to finish Warhorn and Journey boots, not only for their incredible useful benefits, but also because during lane fights, minions must be quickly killed because they are part of the DPS you will suffer. Ardan can easily manage between saving team members and killing minions, specially if the Breaking Point build has already started (with Blazing Salvo).
Heres a RECAP of your build right now: Warhorn, Journey Boots, Fountain of Renewal, Breaking Point.
I like to add more attack speed to Breaking Point as this will result in a great DPS.
During fights, if you have another Ardan or Catherine or Phinn on the other side, they will likely send him first, make sure you start hitting him soon: you don't want to kill him but to gather stacks from Breaking Point as fast as possible: after 5 or 6 seconds, you will be able to practicly kill Ringo or Taka in 3 hits.
But during these critical seconds, you MUST use all the cooldowns in your possession.
Personally I like to lockdown an enemy only if one of mines is getting focused, and just after having used Warhorn or Vanguard. This will help your friend to escape and stun the enemy inside the arena.
Getting back to the build, now you may continue with Tornado Trigger or some other ability you might use.
If Celeste is in the opposite team, the best would be to build up Aegis. Ardan is weak to Crystal and if there's Broken Myth on the other side, you may be focused as first and have no chance of helping the others.
If Krul is in the opposite team, well.. Good luck! Just kidding :-)
Get Atlas Pauldron and SPAM it as Krul's force is attack speed.
For the sixth item, it really depends on your team's builds, if they have some defense abilities, you might opt for Bonesaw, else it's better to get Crucible and use it just before Vanguard, followed by Warhorn.
Trust me, it works. But in the meantime, all of your team must really focus Krul or he will be the last man standing with 10 or 15 stacks of Breaking Point and will oneshot everybody.
Some tips:
- Getting Crucible at the beginning or mid-game, is useless. Sure: it provides you 600 health and a great shield for your team, but it won't protect you from basic or crystal attacks.
- Journey Boots is not essential: it could be the very last 900 gold you spend.
- You could also opt for Frostburn, this would help a little if you don't have Gauntlet ready, but personally I prefer Shiversteel, specially when there are enemies like Ringo, Taka or Koshka.
- If you already have Breaking Point and Taka is your target, he will Kaku as soon as his health drops. Keep hitting somebody else or your stacks will start decrease. Taka will eventually X-Retsu again, you might want to prevent by Vanguarding your weakest friend, and punch him again.
- Don't bother tailing nobody, if you don't have Gauntlet ready. It would distract you from keeping your team alive and it will result in a question-ping-spamming on your corpse.
- Start buying Scout traps between 5 and 10 minutes, and finish buying infusions anytime you can, priority to the Weapon one. If you can buy both.
- I don't like to push Gauntlet to the third point, cooldown is too high and overdriving Blood for Blood is much more fun. 5/5/2 is the best build, to me.
Here is my exact path from the start to mid-game:
- Ironguard Contract; 2 potions
- Oakheart
- Dragonheart
- Sprint Boots
- Travel Boots (usually I get them at once)
- Oakheart / Light Shield
- Lifespring / Kinetic Shield
- Fountain of Renewal
- Swift Shooter / Blazing Salvo
- Stormguard Banner
- Warhorn
- Minion's Foot / Lucky strike
- Breaking Point
From there what to get depends on many many factors. Do what you think should be the best.
I hope you found this useful. This is really what I do everytime I play Ardan (95% of the times) and I can say, except for few games, I always make my team win and have 3 to 5 thumbs up!
Sorry if I made some english mistakes or if I don't spend more time making this guide good-looking, but i'm writing it between games.
Bye! :-)
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